Year 888 » Odo of France named Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
Year 1435 » 'Sicut Dudum', forbidding the enslavement of the Guanches or Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish people e.g Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
Year 1547 » Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
Year 1607 » The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of Sovereign default known as national bankruptcy in Spain.
Year 1666 » French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrived Dhaka and met Shaista Khan.
Year 1793 » Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
Year 1797 » French Revolutionary Wars: A Action of 13 January 1797 named naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.
Year 1815 » War of 1812: British Empire called British troops capture Battle of Fort Peter or Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
Year 1822 » The design of the Flag of Greece or Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
Year 1830 » The Great fire of New Orleans called New Orleans, Louisiana begins.
Year 1840 » The steamship 'Steamship Lexington e.g Lexington' burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
Year 1847 » The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California.
Year 1869 » National convention of black leaders meets in Washington, D.C.
Year 1893 » The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
Year 1893 » United States Marine Corps U.S. Marines land in Honolulu Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston 1884 6 to prevent the queen from abrogating the 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii Bayonet Constitution.
Year 1908 » The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
Year 1910 » The Birth of public radio broadcasting first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera 'Cavalleria rusticana' is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House (39th St) Metropolitan Opera House in New York City New
Year 1913 » Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
Year 1915 » An 1915 Avezzano earthquake e.g earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
Year 1934 » The Candidate of Sciences degree is established in the Soviet Union.
Year 1935 » A Referendum called plebiscite in Saar (League of Nations) known as Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
Year 1939 » The Black Friday (1939) or Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
Year 1942 » Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
Year 1942 » World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a Germany called German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
Year 1951 » First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, which will end in a major victory for France.
Year 1958 » The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Ifni War known as Battle of Edchera.
Year 1964 » Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.
Year 1964 » Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Kraków named Kraków, Poland.
Year 1966 » Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Year 1968 » Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison named performs live at Folsom State Prison
Year 1974 » Archbishop Seraphim of Athens called Seraphim is elected List of archbishops of Athens called Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
Year 1978 » U.S. Food & Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
Year 1985 » A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
Year 1986 » A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden called Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
Year 1988 » Lee Teng-hui becomes the first Taiwanese people e.g native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.
Year 1990 » Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
Year 1991 » Soviet Union troops January Events (Lithuania) e.g attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding 1000.
Year 1993 » Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Endeavour or 'Endeavour' heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
Year 2001 » An 2001 El Salvador earthquakes The January 13 earthquake known as earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
Year 2012 » The passenger cruise ship 'Costa Concordia' Costa Concordia disaster named sinks off the coast of Italy. There are 31 confirmed deaths with one still missing, Russel Rebello, amongst the 4232 passengers and crew.